I thought it was about time I tried Nokia’s Ovi-service which supposedly does many cool things. After all, having your contacts backed up on the network is a very good thing and this is one of the services I was looking forward to Ovi providing.
Let’s see what happened. After a relatively painless setup and initial synchronization, the calendar, to-do lists and notes seemed to have synchronized fine. And even the contacts, all 723 of them, were there.
Or were they?
Because something seems to be missing on the Ovi-side. Here’s a screenshot of one contact entry. On the left is what I see on my phone, on the right is Ovi’s interpretation of it:
Where the hell is the phone number?! This is the situation with roughly 85% of my contacts.
What is a synchronization service that manages to miss a minor irrelevant detail of a contact item – like the contact detail itself – good for? Let me answer that rhetorical question: it’s good for nothing.
Yep, the same happened with me.
I hope it’s just a display problem and not a storage/sync one — I hope they have the number when I need to sync it back.